UFO Sightings in Maine
1,115 UFO sightings reported in Maine since 1946, peaking in 2012 (103 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,115
- Span
- 1946–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (103 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1946–2022 · peak 2012 (103 reports)
Top cities in Maine
Portland
1964–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Bangor
1967–2020 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Scarborough
1958–2020 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Augusta
1995–2021 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Lewiston
1998–2020 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
York
1974–2017 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Waterville
1965–2019 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Brunswick
1954–2020 · peak 2006 (2 reports)
Gorham
1995–2022 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Auburn
1995–2021 · peak 2018 (3 reports)
Ellsworth
1967–2020 · peak 2013 (2 reports)
Kittery
1973–2021 · peak 2014 (2 reports)
Wells
1978–2021 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Old Orchard Beach
2001–2019 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Kennebunk
2001–2021 · peak 2020 (4 reports)
Winslow
1976–2018 · peak 2011 (2 reports)
South Berwick
1994–2019 · peak 2016 (4 reports)
Windham
1995–2022 · peak 1995 (1 reports)
Sanford
2000–2022 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Bridgton
2012–2021 · peak 2019 (3 reports)
Scarborough · ME, USA
Witnessed 4 orange lights, 3 equidistant apart and the 4th light set apart and all travelling low/slow in the night sky and dissapeared
Kennebunk · ME, USA
2 bright orange irregular lights moving slowly, with no sound, into a fog bank over the ocean.
Turner · ME, USA
Orange "ball" slowly comes over driveway
Lebanon · ME, USA
Flashing red, blue lights around stat. obj. w/ white lights: seen Nov, 5, 6, & 8 in W sky of ME. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star?? PD))
Freeport · ME, USA
Several of my friends and I were in a parking lot and we looks up because it was a nice clear night, and there was a greenish white-ish
Lyman · ME, USA
Multiple pointed circular shere, void center, very bright, very stable in shape, not moving, very high.
Turner · ME, USA
Red orb comes down our driveway
Portland · ME, USA
Five points of light, bit brighter than stars, all moving erratically in one direction
Bernard · ME, USA
A bright orange fireball traveled very slowly , taking 1 - 2 minutes, from east to west over Bass Harbor before burning itself out.
Vassalboro · ME, USA
Approximately 13:30(130pm)on Saturday September 10,2011 at Vassalboro, ME, about ten miles N of Augusta on the Holman Day Rd.
Harrison · ME, USA
Yellowish/red spheres observed off to the southwest about 9:30 PM on 9/10/11?
Presque Isle · ME, USA
5 objects seen in aroostook county sky numerous times! ((NUFORC Note: We suspect twinkling stars. PD))
Phillips · ME, USA
Very large light moving across the sky, disappearing behind the tree line, followed by a flash of light as if something had exploded
Poland · ME, USA
Bright white ball in the sky that stopped and changed direction 90 degrees, airplanes cant do that.
Winslow · ME, USA
Odd oscillating white lights above Maine (Sighted in central Maine)
Winslow · ME, USA
Winslow sighting of two white oscilating lights
Orr's Island · ME, USA
Fireball and orbs moving very rapidly at sharp angles
York · ME, USA
Bright Orange lights over York Beach!
York · ME, USA
Round orange object traveling south to north over the ocean
Kittery Point · ME, USA
I noticed a strange plane and pointed at it, it then turned and flew directly over me and two friends, it was very low.
Old orchard beach · ME, USA
6 slow moving balls of light disappear into a cloud
Palermo · ME, USA
Bright red object traveled slowly across the sky from the southwest to northeast and then disappeared.
Portland · ME, USA
4 small red disappearing lights in arch formation
Industry · ME, USA
Star-like obkect in sky moves silently, and changes directions.
Waterville · ME, USA
Movment in the sky